Mark Waugh slams 'selfish' India over day-night Test snub

SYDNEY: Retiring selector Mark Waugh has lashed out at "childish" India for declining to play a day-night Test amid their voyage through Australia, blaming the cricketing power for keeping down the diversion.

Cricket Australia needed the primary Test in Adelaide from December 6 played under lights to take advantage of the developing prominence of pink-ball cricket.

Be that as it may, India, who are yet to play a day-night Test, said they were not intrigued by testing in such a prominent arrangement.

The Australians have played four day-night Tests since 2015, three of them in Adelaide, winning them all.

Waugh, who is venturing down as a national selector when his agreement terminates on August 31, said the choice was frustrating as well as narrow minded given the falling ubiquity of Test cricket.

"It's somewhat egotistical from India's perspective since we have to renew Test cricket," he said in The Australian daily paper Thursday.

"Day-night Test cricket in a few nations will be one of those fixings that could change Test cricket back to where it ought to be."

CA trusts day-night Test cricket is a more TV cordial configuration and maybe the best way to revive the five-day variant of the amusement which is hailing all around following the ascent of the quickfire Twenty20 organization.

Waugh said Australia, India and England were the main spots where Test cricket was "perfectly healthy".

"India's group is entirely appropriate to day-night cricket, they have a string of quick bowlers, so they don't simply depend on the spinners and their batsman are actually great too," he said.

"So for more prominent's benefit of the diversion, I would have wanted to have seen that as a day-night Test."

In declaring their choice prior this month, BCCI director Vinod Rai said "no one can put a firearm on to our head and say play (day-night cricket)".

"There have been questions about the pink ball itself in Duke and Kookaburra," he included, alluding to the English and Australian ball producers.

India explored different avenues regarding pink ball cricket in its Duleep Trophy residential title in 2016 however executives and best players stay vigilant about playing at global level.

India are will visit Australia from November 21 to January 19 with four Tests, three Twenty20 internationals and three one-day diversions on the timetable.